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Author: The Texas Signal April 9, 2019 Progressives made huge gains last year up and down the ballot in the Lone Star State. Arch-conservative Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick won by, what, less than five points? And Sen.Ted Cruz by less than three. Unheard of. Houston went blue...

Author: The Texas Signal April 4, 2019 Photo by Emree Weaver/Texas Tribune What a difference a session of the Texas Legislature makes. Supporters of public education in the Lone Star State have for years sounded the alarm about the unsustainable state of school...

Author: The Texas Signal April 4, 2019 The trite old saying about how Democrats fall in love when picking their candidates while Republicans fall in line may not be true for the 2020 presidential election. At least the part about Democrats. The #1 priority of...

Author: The Texas Signal April 1, 2019 Harris County filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday opposing the Trump Administration’s efforts to include a citizenship question in the 2020 Census. Adding such a question, the brief argues, violates the...

Author: The Texas Signal April 1, 2019 Photo by Damon Winter/New York Times U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz on Monday sued the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to be able to raise funds to repay personal loans to his own campaign. The 2018 election was costly for Cruz in more...

Author: The Texas Signal March 28, 2019 The Lone Star State has long lagged the national average in voter turnout. A 2017 Nonprofit VOTE/U.S. Elections Project report noted Texas had the country’s third-lowest turnout rate in the 2016 presidential election – 51.6...